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Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency (www.atlanticcouncil.org)

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On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.

According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.

Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Lmao Atlantic Council is now Russian propaganda? If that was the case Russia won already and you need to learn cyrillic lmao.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

get-ready-to-learn-chinese-buddy Get ready to learn Russian buddy.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I do want to eventually learn Russian, but I'm already learning a second language and Spanish will be my third. Maybe Mandarin as my fourth. Russian as fifth? Doubt I'll get that far, sadly.